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...Student debt is like quicksand—it swallows you up before you have a chance to gain your footing,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., told The Northwest Indiana Times yesterday. “Graduating from college should kick start a young person’s professional life, but massive debt will just bog you down for decades...
...Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., urged students to consolidate their loans in a statement last month, even as he lamented the hikes. The ranking Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Kennedy also released a report earlier this week with the committee’s other Democrats showing that tuition has risen faster than federal education grants. He introduced a bill on Wednesday that would reduce interest rates on student loans and increase need-based grants...
...their part, several Senate GOP staffers TIME.com spoke with agreed that a public airing of the more moderate provisions in the Senate bill could doom their measure. Instead of enjoying the Republican chaos, however, Democrats were left scrambling to catch up. Sen. Harry Reid today called on President Bush to push those conservative House Republicans to begin a House-Senate conference immediately. But with his ratings low, and House Republicans digging in deeper, Bush may be little more than a spectator when it comes to this summer's immigration caravan...
...climate, however, has changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the ongoing steroids scandal. "Some of us think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid...
...known as a courtly Virginia gentleman, but Sen. John Warner, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is playing hardball. The 79-year-old Republican Senator has just ratcheted up the pressure on the Defense Department to come clean on what happened at Haditha. On Tuesday Warner fired off a stern letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, announcing that he wanted to hold hearings on the attack last Nov. 19, in which members of a Marine company are accused of gunning down two dozen innocent civilians in the village northwest of Baghdad. The first witness Warner wants before...